---
type: "Bill"
title: "Home Health Care Services"
description: "Home Health Care Services ; Revises provisions relating to administrator management; authorizes individuals under contract with home health agency to provide specified services; revises Excellence in Home Health Program criteria requirements."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1353"
citation: "Florida HB 1353 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-127"
primary_sponsors: ["Franklin"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 37
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-27"
last_action: "2025-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7adfb3e4-6e15-4c08-97b2-29e3f948a20f"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1353/ByCategory"
source_hash: "cc8c46e9d32e20b63c3037e76995e632256f4208412c898db6950a9baaa3d977"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-fl"]
---

# Florida HB 1353 (2025) — Home Health Care Services

Home Health Care Services ; Revises provisions relating to administrator management; authorizes individuals under contract with home health agency to provide specified services; revises Excellence in Home Health Program criteria requirements.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-127.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **H 1353 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1353/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 1353 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1353/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 1353 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1353/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Franklin — primary (person)
- Health & Human Services Committee — primary (organization)
- Plasencia — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenwald — cosponsor (person)
- Tant — cosponsor (person)
- Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)
- Valdés — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-02-27** Filed `filing`
- **2025-03-04** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2025-03-05** Referred to Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05** Now in Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee
- **2025-03-17** Added to Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee agenda
- **2025-03-19** Favorable by Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-19** Reported out of Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee
- **2025-03-19** Now in Health & Human Services Committee
- **2025-03-27** Added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
- **2025-03-31** Favorable with CS by Health & Human Services Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-01** Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
- **2025-04-01** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2025-04-01** CS Filed `filing`
- **2025-04-02** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2025-04-02** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2025-04-02** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-10** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/16/2025)
- **2025-04-16** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-16** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-16** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-16** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-16** CS passed; YEAS 115, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-16** In Messages
- **2025-04-16** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-22** Received `enrolled`
- **2025-04-23** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2025-04-23** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-23** Substituted for SB 1412
- **2025-04-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-23** CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-23** In Messages
- **2025-04-23** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-06-04** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-05** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-06** Chapter No. 2025-127

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7adfb3e4-6e15-4c08-97b2-29e3f948a20f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).